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Administrator, Interventions Team, Permanent, 35 hours per week, £27,720 per annum
Administrator – Interventions Team
Permanent role £27, 720 per annum, 35 hours per week
It is an exciting time to join the Law Society of Scotland and we have an opportunity within the Interventions Team for two Administrators.
The primary objectives of the Interventions team are to take on Judicial Factory appointments and Interventions into law firms under the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980. This role provides key administrative support to the Judicial Factor and Head of Interventions, and to the wider Interventions team, in the operation of these appointments. The bulk of the team’s work emanates from Court appointments made in the Judicial Factory cases, which have specific deadlines to be met and procedures to followed. Following a sustained upturn in the volume of work being carried out by the Interventions team, additional administrative support is now required.
This role plays an important part in protecting the public and maintaining confidence in the legal profession. You will deal with interesting work as we seek to protect and support the public when intervention is required into a law firm.
At the centre of our organisation are the values of Respect, Openness, Progress, Inclusion, and Integrity which drive our teams to deliver the best possible service for the legal sector and beyond.
Key Responsibilities for this role
- correspond with enquiries, written and verbal, from various parties
- implement mandates for clients of ceased practices
- ingather documents to meet requests and production orders from Crown Office, Police and other third parties
- assist in the processing of claims and in the recovery of debts with clients of closed firms
- occasional work on-site in solicitor offices (Scotland wide) to secure and remove records and files.
Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- paralegal qualification or equivalent would be advantageous
- experience in the legal sector or equivalent
- experience in a customer facing role
- availability to travel anywhere in Scotland at short notice which may also involve some anti-social hours plus overnight stays
What we offer our employees?
We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support our colleague’s professional and personal needs. Some of these include:
· A hybrid working environment (this is primarily an office-based role, with the option of one day home-working each week).
· Flexible working, to allow you to work around your lifestyle and commitments.
· 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
· A competitive pension provision scheme
· Excellent family friendly benefits
· Learning and Development opportunities to enhance your skills or through programmes leading to professional or academic qualification.
· Private medical insurance
· Various health and wellbeing benefits such as confidential counselling services, bike to work scheme, eyecare, and offers on well-known brands through our lifestyle savings offerings.
We are always on the look for new talent to join our incredible workforce. If you are looking for a new opportunity within the society, we would love to hear from you!
You can find out more information about the law society and this role on our website. If this opportunity sounds like the one for you, click Apply now.
This vacancy will close at 11.30am on Monday 20 April 2026.
We are unable to provide feedback to applicants who are not selected for interviews.
We are unable to accept CV’s. Please complete the application in full.
Administrator, Interventions Team, Temporary for a period of 12 months, 35 hours per week, £27,720 per annum
Administrator – Interventions Team
Temporary for a period of 12 months, £27,720 per annum.
It is an exciting time to join the Law Society of Scotland and we have an opportunity within the Interventions Team for two Administrators.
The primary objectives of the Interventions team are to take on Judicial Factory appointments and Interventions into law firms under the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980. This role provides key administrative support to the Judicial Factor and Head of Interventions, and to the wider Interventions team, in the operation of these appointments. The bulk of the team’s work emanates from Court appointments made in the Judicial Factory cases, which have specific deadlines to be met and procedures to followed. Following a sustained upturn in the volume of work being carried out by the Interventions team, additional administrative support is now required.
This role plays an important part in protecting the public and maintaining confidence in the legal profession. You will deal with interesting work as we seek to protect and support the public when intervention is required into a law firm.
At the centre of our organisation are the values of Respect, Openness, Progress, Inclusion, and Integrity which drive our teams to deliver the best possible service for the legal sector and beyond.
Key Responsibilities for this role
- correspond with enquiries, written and verbal, from various parties
- implement mandates for clients of ceased practices
- ingather documents to meet requests and production orders from Crown Office, Police and other third parties
- assist in the processing of claims and in the recovery of debts with clients of closed firms
- occasional work on-site in solicitor offices (Scotland wide) to secure and remove records and files.
Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- paralegal qualification or equivalent would be advantageous
- experience in the legal sector or equivalent
- experience in a customer facing role
- availability to travel anywhere in Scotland at short notice which may also involve some anti-social hours plus overnight stays
What we offer our employees?
We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support our colleague’s professional and personal needs. Some of these include:
- A hybrid working environment (this is primarily an office-based role, with the option of one day home-working each week).
- Flexible working, to allow you to work around your lifestyle and commitments.
- 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
- A competitive pension provision scheme
- Excellent family friendly benefits
- Learning and Development opportunities to enhance your skills or through programmes leading to professional or academic qualification.
- Private medical insurance
- Various health and wellbeing benefits such as confidential counselling services, bike to work scheme, eyecare, and offers on well-known brands through our lifestyle savings offerings.
We are always on the look for new talent to join our incredible workforce. If you are looking for a new opportunity within the society, we would love to hear from you!
You can find out more information about the law society and this role on our website. If this opportunity sounds like the one for you, click Apply now.
This vacancy will close at 11.30am on Monday 20 April 2026.
We are unable to provide feedback to applicants who are not selected for interviews.
We are unable to accept CV’s. Please complete the application in full.
Job Description and Employee Specification
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Information Governance Officer, Two permanent roles, 35 hours per week, £38,787 per annum
Information Governance Officer £38,787pa, Two permanent roles, 35 hours per week
It is an exciting time to join the Law Society of Scotland. We are building and deploying a new FOI compliance regime and modernising our approach to information governance.
We have an opportunity within the Information Governance Team for two Information Governance Officer’s (IGO).
We are looking for someone who is proactive, detail focused and able to champion high standards of data protection, information management and organisational transparency while supporting colleagues across the organisation with clear, practical guidance.
About us
As the professional body for around 14,000 Scottish solicitors, the Law Society of Scotland seeks to lead legal excellence. Not only do we regulate the solicitor profession in the public interest, we also provide services and support to help the profession thrive.
The successful candidate will be joining our Legal and Governance Team which includes Information Governance, Governance and Corporate Complaints teams.
At the centre of our organisation are the values of Respect, Openness, Progress, Inclusion, and Integrity which drive our teams to deliver the best possible service for the legal sector and beyond.
Key Responsibilities for this role:
• Support IG best practice and compliance with our statutory and regulatory obligations
• Work closely with our IG Champions to raise awareness of IG requirements
• Support the team in producing routine internal and external reports
• Contribute to the development, implementation, and maintenance of IG policies, procedures, and guidance
Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Essential:
• Understanding of UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, and information rights
• Experience working in an information governance, data protection, or records management environment
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Desirable:
• Relevant qualifications (e.g., FOISA Practitioner Certificate or Data Protection Certificate)
For more detailed information, please refer to the full job description and person specification.
What we offer our employees?
We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support our colleague’s professional and personal needs. Some of these include:
• A hybrid working environment.
• Flexible working, to allow you to work around your lifestyle and commitments.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• A competitive pension provision scheme
• Excellent family friendly benefits
• Learning and Development opportunities to enhance your skills or through programmes leading to professional or academic qualification.
• Private medical insurance including dental and optical.
• Various health and wellbeing benefits such as confidential counselling services, bike to work scheme, eyecare, and offers on well-known brands through our Lifestyle savings offering.
We are always on the look for new talent to join our incredible workforce. If you are looking for a new opportunity within the society, we would love to hear from you!
If this opportunity sounds like the one for you, click Apply now.
This vacancy will close at 11:30am on 14 April 2026.
We are unable to provide feedback to applicants who are not selected for interviews.
We are unable to accept CVs. Please the application in full.
Reporter to the Professional Conduct Sub-Committee, 3 Fixed Term roles (up to 12 months), 35 hours per week, £55,297pa
Reporter to the Professional Conduct Sub-Committee, 3 Fixed Term roles (up to 12 months), 35 hours per week, £55,297pa
It is an exciting time to join the Law Society of Scotland. Due to an increase in the volume of conduct complaints, we have an opportunity within the Professional Conduct Team for three Reporters.
You would be joining the team that is responsible for dealing with all eligible conduct complaints about Scottish qualified solicitors. This role involves investigating complaints about the conduct of Scottish solicitors and writing recommendations for the independent Professional Conduct Sub-committee to consider. You will be responsible for a varied caseload of interesting work that can be technical and high profile in nature. You will have an opportunity to use your communication skills to help parties understand the process as we seek to deal with conduct complaints robustly but fairly – respecting all parties involved in the process.
The team do important and rewarding work. You will be busy and play a key role in public protection, maintaining confidence in the legal profession and upholding proper professional standards and conduct amongst solicitors. We want to get even better at what we do. You will have the opportunity to use your skills and experience to shape the role and how our work is done, to the benefit of the public and profession alike.
At the centre of our organisation are the values of Respect, Openness, Progress, Inclusion, and Integrity which drive our teams to deliver the best possible service for the legal sector and beyond.
Key Responsibilities for this role
• Manage a varied caseload of investigations about the conduct of Scottish solicitors, progressing cases effectively in accordance with procedures, standards, deadlines and key measures.
• Ensure investigations are dealt with in a timely manner by prioritising work independently, managing your own workload and using problem solving skills to balance competing demands.
• Conduct robust, proportionate and fair investigations through effective investigation planning and case management.
• Obtain, analyse and assess all relevant information required for the effective investigation, applying good attention to detail, awareness of the relevant legal framework and the wider regulatory environment. Identify and research relevant points of law that may be material to the determination of the complaint.
• Write well-reasoned recommendations which: clearly identify the issues; present the information obtained in a well-structured, clear and succinct way; and make recommendations about what action the PCSC should take in accordance with policies and previous cases.
• Ensure prompt responses are provided to communications from parties and parties are kept informed in accordance with our policies and service standards. Communicate sensitively, effectively and professionally with parties, witnesses and others. Identify where parties are vulnerable and may require additional support.
• Produce high-quality written correspondence and documents.
• Maintain accurate records and case information.
• Manage large volumes of sensitive information in accordance with data protection legislation and our data management policies and procedures.
• Develop improved ways of working and assist with the implementation of change within the team.
• Carry out any other reasonable duties that may be expected.
Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
• A Scottish solicitor with a current practising certificate
• Experience of managing a varied investigation or complaints caseload in accordance with procedures and key measures
• Experience of working under pressure in a busy and demanding environment, working independently and problem solving to manage competing deadlines and priorities
• Experience of communicating sensitively and professionally with a range of stakeholders with different interests and needs
• Experience of analysing high volumes of information and producing clear and succinct written reports or recommendations
• Experience of adapting and contributing to change in the workplace
• Experience of working across a range of business systems including Microsoft Office (including Teams), video conferencing applications and case management systems
• High level of planning and organisational skills
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and ability to understand and solve complex problems
What we offer our employees?
We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support our colleague’s professional and personal needs. Some of these include:
• A hybrid working environment.
• Flexible working, to allow you to work around your lifestyle and commitments.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• A competitive pension provision scheme
• Excellent family friendly benefits
• Learning and Development opportunities to enhance your skills or through programmes leading to professional or academic qualification.
• Private medical insurance including dental and optical.
• Various health and wellbeing benefits such as confidential counselling services, bike to work scheme, eyecare, and offers on well-known brands through our Lifestyle savings offering.
We are always on the look for new talent to join our incredible workforce. If you are looking for a new opportunity within the society, we would love to hear from you!
If this opportunity sounds like the one for you, click Apply now.
This vacancy will close at 11:30am on 21 April 2026.
We are unable to provide feedback to applicants who are not selected for interviews.
We are unable to accept CV’s. Please complete the application in full.
Job Description and Employee Specification
About us
The Law Society of Scotland is the professional body for Scottish solicitors. We promote excellence among solicitors through the support and regulation of our members.